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Science 23 May 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3882, pp. 944 - 947
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3882.944
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Anorthosite Belts, Continental Drift, and the Anorthosite Event

Norman Herz 1

1 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 20242

Most anorthosites lie in two principal belts when plotted on a predrift continental reconstruction. Anorthosite ages in the belts cluster around 1300 ± 200 million years and range from 1100 to 1700 million years. This suggests that anorthosites are the product of a unique cataclysmic event or a thermal event that was normal only during the earth's early history.


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